Question: as you like coding, what do you know about alan turing?

Joe Reed answered on 19 Nov 2014:

I know that he was a genius and contributed massively to the cracking of the Enigma coding machines used by the germans in WW2.

I also know that he was gay at a time when it was illegal to be so. He was given a choice between jail or probation where he had to undergo “treatment” for him being gay. He was found dead 2 years later in what is believed to be a suicide.